"This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new
perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and
other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and
genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several
well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a
diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with
several questions, including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that
crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain
gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or
disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a
plural narrative space for transgenre explorations, encounters, and
experimentation? With this, the volume’s chapters explore expected
categories such as transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, but
also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender
identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpolitics,
transmodalities, and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the
appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film, the
function of trans rhetorics in memoir, textual markers of
transgenderism, and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities, the chapters
offer innovative, but not limited, ways to interpret the Gothic. In
addition, the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist
and queer readings of the Gothic. Together, these diverse approaches
engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject, and offer new and
exciting connections and insights into Gothic, Media, Film, Narrative,
and Gender and Sexuality Studies."